3D Training Tools?

[JQP]

Anyone ever used Poser or DAZ|Studio to pose figures in the stances and strikes to illustrate technique? If not someone should, it would be a great training tool. Nothing lets you get a handle on a posture or movement like 3d.

I have the software and the know-how to make something like that (no big deal really, anybody can learn Poser or D|S pretty quickly), but I know squat about the martial arts end. I don't know how to animate, but a few "keyframes" of each movement should be enough to impart the gist.

[ChristineChurches]

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[Jonathan_Kaplan]

You could, you know, take video of them? that would work too...

[AlexCSmith]

Video would be great but a very good 3d model could be shown completing the techniques without the need to dispose of the unfortunate targets.

[Brien Hartung]

Forgive me for bumping, but it has taken me this long to download D/S and figure out how it works.


Upon looking at it, the only problem I see is that while programs of this type can pose for a still image - or a series of still images turned into a film - they cannot demonstrate a continuous motion while remaining three-dimensional. If one is merely recording from a fixed point-of view, there is no reason not to simply videotape a live martial artist.

If I am wrong about this aspect of the program, forgive me. I would enjoy being shown otherwise, it sounds like an interesting suggestion.